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Price: US$274.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
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Seller: HOUSE-BOOK, LA FARLEDE, France
Price: US$461.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: - Second Edition - In Two Volumes - Bound in leather w/ gilt borders and the 5 raised bands to the spine - Covers are heavily marked and worn w/ chips to edges and corners - Edges rubbed and corners worn w/ boards exposed - Spine ends chipped w/ tiny areas missing and some breaches to spine ends - Spine of Vol I cracked and w/ significant split to spine tail - Front joint of Vol II split but board still attached - Edges of text block tanned w/ marks and stains to fore and bottom edges particularly of volume one - Ex-Libris sticker of Ian Jack, professor at Cambridge, to front pastedown of both volumes - Endpapers heavily tanned and foxed - Hinges breached but not open - Content heavily toned, grubby and foxed throughout - Books ow/ solid - A nice example of one of the earliest novels in English - xxii/308vii/304 pages
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes, duodecimos, dark brown modern linen, spines gilt ruled with new dark brown morocco gilt lettering pieces, some light internal waterstains, minor foxing and light embrowning, small piece gone from one leaf of first volume with minimal loss of two letters only, not affecting legibility of text, and complete with the rare two leaves of the publisher's ads at the end of the first volume. This second edition contains highly significant revisions and additions by Fielding. Fielding no sooner had completed the original manuscript of the first edition, which was published this same year, 1742, than he began painstaking revisions, correcting several inconsistencies, polishing and improving both scenes and characters as well as subtly improving the syntax and adding a number of humorous passages. He also added the Table of Contents, which was not in the first edition. Cross, Fielding III, pages 305-306; not in Rothschild. Uncommon. This set may require extra postage and insurance depending upon shipping destination.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$628.61 + shipping
Description: Written in Imitation of The Manner of Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote. The Second Edition: Revised and Corrected with Alterations and Additions by the Author. In two volumes. Pp. xxii+[ii](advertisements)+308+[4](advertisements)+viii+304; cr. 12mo; early full calf, the boards with decorative borders in blind, plus gilt edges from which the gilt has largely been rubbed, joints and spines worn, the spines cracking, with most of the gilt rules and lettering rubbed away (although the volume numbers are still visible), missing the title labels and with early hand lettering of short-title on Volume I, the spine extremities chipped both volumes, with a later repair at foot of Volume II, the boards lightly marked and rubbed, edges lightly worn; bookplate of British statesman and diplomat Duff Cooper (designed by Rex Whistler) on the upper pastedowns, small early inked scribble on lower pastedown Volume I, the upper hinge cracking Volume II and lacking the lower pastedown same volume, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for A. Millar, London, 1742. Second edition. ESTC T89882. *Printed four months after the first edition, the author's corrections and additions make this second edition the basis for the modern text.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Henry Fielding. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. A. Millar, London, 1742.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding. First edition. Published by A. Millar, London, 1742. Bound in twentieth century sprinkled calf, all edges gilt. Five raised bands to the spine, with gilt lettering and floral motifs. Two volumes, measuring approximately 6.25" x 4". Two leaves of publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. I. (First 6 leaves in Vol. II inserted on stubs, lacking 2 advertisement leaves in Vol. II, some minor soiling to a few leaves.) Very good condition, with wear to the leather at the corners and spine. Provenance: John Louis Ketterlinus (1852-1932), proprietor of Ketterlinus Printing House (later Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company) in Philadelphia (lithographed bookplate). FIRST EDITION in which Fielding continues his critique of Richardson's Pamela in what some describe as the first comedic novel in English, which Fielding describes in the introduction as a "comic Epic-Poem in Prose." Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild 844. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (L4-4).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3328.00 + shipping
Description: 165 x 98 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 7/8"). With four pages of ads at the end of volume I; one leaf of ads at the beginning and two pages of ads at the end of volume II. Two volumes. VERY PRETTY TAN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron within a lozenge of dots, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, lacy gilt turn-ins, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a brown buckram slipcase. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Robert Hoe. Cross III, 305; Rothschild 844; Tinker 1034. âOccasional mild browning or faint foxing, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET, clean and fresh internally, in unworn bindings. This is a handsomely bound copy, with superior provenance, of the first appearance of a breakthrough work in the field of English literature. Fielding had a profound influence in determining the development of the novel, and this was the first great instrument of that influence. Although some of the names of the characters are facetious, the events, personalities, and settings are all characterized by convincing verisimilitude. The book was begun as a spoof of Richardson's sentimental "Pamela," but it ended up, on its own, as one of the best novels of the period. The beautiful bindings by the leading English workshop Riviere and the sparkling condition here are characteristic of books from the collection of our earlier owner Robert Hoe (1839-1911), founding member and first president of the Grolier Club. According to Beverly Chew, Hoe's library was "the finest [America] has ever contained." Hoe acquired illuminated manuscripts, early printing, French and English literature, and very fine bindings; when his library was sold in 1911-12, it fetched nearly $2 million, a record that held until the Streeter sale more than 50 years later.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. Very Scarce First Edition. With provenance of the Newberry Library, officially withdrawn, and earlier, of Gustavia A. Senff, millionairess and wife of Charles H. Senff of the famed Senff Collection, including paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Franz Hals, Velazquez, Corot, Clays, and Hobbema, etc. With the terminal advertisements in both volumes as called for. 12mo, very handsomely bound during the period in bindings of full speckled calf, the boards framed with double-gilt rules with circular corner-tools, expertly rebacked with gilt hatched raised bands betwixt beautifully gilt tooled compartments, with the original contrasting red and green labels ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, and housed in an attractive cloth-covered clamshell box with morocco labels gilt lettered. xix, 1, 306pp, 4 ads; 310pp, 2 ads. A fine and handsome set, the text as clean and fresh as one could hope to find, the antique boards very solid with only a touch of expert restoration and minor wear, the spines beautifully accomplished. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST FULL NOVEL BY HENRY FIELDING AND VERY EARLY AMONG THE MODERN NOVELS PUBLISHED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Fielding called this his "comic epic poem in prose" and it embodies two aesthetics of period literature; being both neoclassical and mock-heroic. Fielding states that the work is an "imitation of the manner of Cervantes", and it does indeed owe much of its humor to Cervantean techniques. But it was Samuel Richardson and the cultural phenomenon caused by Richardson's PAMELA that Fielding had centered in his cross-hairs, within the first few chapters Richardson is parodied mercilessly. Fielding claims in his preface that his impetus for writing the novel was to establish a literary genre "which I do not remember to have been hitherto attempted in our language." He defined this as a "comic epic-poem in prose", being a work of prose fiction, epic in length and varied in chapter; making this a very early example of what we would now call a modern English novel. Thematically, JOSEPH ANDREWS tells of a good-natured footman and his friend and mentor Abraham Adams. Andrews is the brother of Richardson's Pamela. Joseph shares his sister's commitment to premarital chastity and, also like Pamela, has caught the eye of someone, the Lady Booby, intent on seducing it away from him. What follows is a bawdy tale of impending marriages, confused parentage, various twists and turns of social standings, and (of course) true love. First Issue with the following points as called for: Vol. I, p.159.8 "issomething; p. 245.-3 dans for Adams, p. 308 numbered 306; Vol. II p. 241 for 214, p. 14.9 threarned for threatened, p. 57.21 thent hese for than these, p. 93.-3 mead s for meadows, p. 221.2 t of not up one line, p. 235.11 f rom has the unwanted space. Bibliography:: First Edition, "Published 22 Feb. 1742 with a run of 1,500 copies; 2nd Edition. In May and author made hundreds of substantive revisions, some of them a page or more in length." see Studies in Biblio. XVI (1963), 81-117.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16010.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, a superb copy of Fielding's scarcest novel from the library of the Duke of Montagu. Joseph Andrews is the first comic novel in English - a new species of writing that Fielding in his Preface called "a comic Epic-Poem in Prose" - featuring the Quixotic exploits of his most memorable character, Parson Adams. Fielding had already burlesqued the epistolary form and naïve moralism of Richardson's Pamela in An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews (1741), but he quickly realised that he had the foundation of a much more ambitious work, embodying an alternative conception of the art of fiction and effectively a new genre in English. The courtier John Montagu, second duke of Montagu (1690-1749), was one of the quirkiest characters of his day, a kind-hearted man of a whimsical, fun-loving bent. "He seems to have believed that the quest for happiness was the main purpose of life and that the struggle for wealth, honours, fame, and power simply destroyed a more generous nature. With this as his guiding principle he became a lover of the practical joke and a creator of hoaxes. He was a man of many parts: philanthropist, a patron of the opera and drama, the protector of freemasonry, and the proponent of a gentler way of life, all hidden under a devil-may-care attitude and style of life" (ODNB). In short, Fielding's ideal reader. Latterly in the library of the renowned American bibliophile Frank J. Hogan (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1945). Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild 844; Metzdorf 1034. 2 volumes, duodecimo (162 x 98 mm). Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt ducal supralibros of John Montagu in centre of each cover and in fourth spine compartment, spines numbered gilt. Later blue cloth box and chemise. Complete with all publisher's advert leaves. Early ink monograms (DM) on pastedowns; engraved bookplate of Frank J. Hogan to first pastedown. Lightly rubbed, some very skilful unobtrusive restoration to the spines, still a fine copy of Fielding's first and scarcest novel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom